Local News in Brief : Man Seized at Rally for Bush Gets Bail

A Los Angeles man who allegedly carried a starter pistol at an election rally for Vice President George Bush in Woodland Hills was said by a prosecutor Thursday to have written about his planned armed revolt and had a poem about President Reagan’s would-be killer.

But federal magistrate Charles Eick set bail for 40-year-old John Junot at $20,000, saying he could find no cause to refuse bail.

The prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Atty. Julie Blackshaw, said material found at the man’s home included a poem entitled “On John Hinckley an (sic) Others.” Reagan was shot and wounded by Hinckley on March 30, 1981.

Blackshaw said agents also seized what appeared to be a journal in which Junot referred to “my planned armed insurrection.”

Junot was arrested last Sunday after people in the crowd at the Bush rally said they saw him drop a starter pistol, which fires only blanks. He was charged with disorderly conduct in an area controlled by the U.S. Secret Service and, if found guilty, faces up to six months in prison.